Help talk:Multilingual support

Latest comment: 1 year ago by DePiep in topic Scripts check
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Old Tagalog/Baybayin edit

The text sample contains U+170D which is not assigned a character in Unicode 9.0. It looks from the image like it should actually be U+1707 (DA). Nukeqler (talk) 19:10, 18 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

See Baybayin#Representation of the character "Ra". DRMcCreedy (talk) 21:56, 18 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
User Nukeqler is right. I can't spot any difference between unassigned U+170D (used for "ra") and U+1707 (letter "da") either. Moreover it seems strange to state that "U+010D is becoming the de facto standard for representing the character Ra" when of all the fonts mentioned here only Paul Morrow's Baybayin Fonts contain a glyph for character U+010D while the others are fully Unicode compliant and lead to a faulty display of the sample text that has a legacy instead of a Unicode encoding. This help page should at least warn users or better replace all occurrences of U+170D with U+1707.
On this issue see also page 7 of https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn35/indonesian-philippine.pdf "A new ‹r› letter." Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 14:01, 29 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
I don't see any Unicode proposals to add TAGALOG LETTER RA and since newer Unicode fonts don't include it I'd say U+170D is no longer de facto. My suggestion is to update the sample text to use U+1707 instead of U+170D. A note could be added to state that some fonts include a separate, non-standard R at position U+170D. Page 7 of https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn35/indonesian-philippine.pdf is definitely helpful but TAGALOG LETTER RA didn't seem to make it into any of the Baybayin/Tagalog Unicode proposals. DRMcCreedy (talk) 17:30, 29 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

I have discovered another issue with our Baybayin sample: Only U+1736 PHILIPPINE DOUBLE PUNCTUATION (which looks like a double slash) should be used in this script as a punctuation mark, see p. 5 of http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/ch17.pdf. I have decided to produce and upload an SVG that has U+1736 at the end of each line and uses U+1707 instead of U+170D. The text now reads:

 

ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜊᜏᜆ᜔ ᜆᜂ ᜀᜌ᜔ ᜁᜐᜒᜈᜒᜎᜅ᜔ ᜈ ᜋᜌ᜔ ᜃᜇᜉᜆᜈ᜔᜶
ᜀᜆ᜔ ᜉᜈ᜔ᜆᜌ᜔ ᜐ ᜇᜒᜄ᜔ᜈᜒᜇᜇ᜔᜶
ᜀᜆ᜔ ᜃᜇᜉᜆᜈ᜔ ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜆᜂ ᜀᜌ᜔ ᜊᜒᜈᜒᜌᜌᜀᜈ᜔ ᜅ᜔ ᜉᜄᜒᜁᜐᜒᜉ᜔᜶
ᜀᜆ᜔ ᜃᜇᜓᜈᜓᜅᜈ᜔ ᜈ ᜃᜁᜎᜅᜅ᜔ ᜋᜄ᜔ᜃᜁᜐ ᜐ ᜃᜉᜆᜒᜇᜈ᜔᜶

Any comments are welcome. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 20:44, 30 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Sorry for waiting for you all! Unicode 14.0 has got u+170d for “Tagalog letter ra” Baokhang48812002 (talk) 14:38, 8 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

In fact, Unicode 14.0 includes both U+170D TAGALOG LETTER RA and U+171F TAGALOG LETTER ARCHAIC RA. See the Unicode proposal for the details. DRMcCreedy (talk) 16:06, 8 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

new font (KNE Sans Serif 24) edit

so, i found this font called "KNE Sans Serif 24" and has different types of support for each language, but a note for arabic: it does not combine the characters like it does in other fonts. link here

--Alefar (talk) 07:10, 19 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Bhaiksuki edit

How good is the Noto Sans font for the Bhaiksuki script? --Apisite (talk) 09:36, 30 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Unicode 14.0 fonts edit

I want to know where to download support fonts for unicode 14.0. --Kankachi1980Kan (talk) 23:49, 14 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Updating browser support (2022) edit

The browser support section speaks of Internet Explorer and not of Microsoft Edge, which suggests to me that it hasn't recently been tested in modern browsers. —Octavo (talk) 02:48, 8 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

About Samaritan font edit

Google already released Noto Sans Samaritan, I wonder if someone would add that to the page since it would be helpful --Ternatean Libra (talk) 08:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Kaktovik numerals edit

Kaktovik numerals were added to Unicode recently (v15.0). While not a script, shouldn't Kaktovik numerals be added to the list, for font support? DePiep (talk) 12:22, 3 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Done. DRMcCreedy (talk) 16:32, 3 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Scripts check edit

Has this page been crosschecked for all Unicode scripts being present and findable? Listed here and {{ISO 15924/overview-4id}} are the 166. DePiep (talk) 17:43, 3 October 2022 (UTC)Reply